In a nutshell: Lucky Pokémon are ultra-rare monsters with better stats and a boon of a 50-percent reduced resource cost to powerups. Earlier this week, a Pokémon Go player posted a picture of 100 lucky Pokémon he gathered in a short time trading with a friend. When Pokémon Go developer Niantic got wind of the…
Editor’s take: Nintendo is bringing another Nintendo 64 classic, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, to its Switch Online Expansion Pack in February. Slow but steady wins the race, or at least that appears to be Nintendo’s strategy with its premium subscription offering. Majora’s Mask arrived in 2000 as the sixth game in the mainline…
In today’s episode of GameSpot News, Persia talks about March’s free games via PS Plus, more Pokémon coming to Sword and Shield, and more.By Persia on February 23, 2022 at 5:09PM PST Following a leak, March’s PlayStation Plus lineup has been revealed, and it includes Ghostrunner, Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, Team Sonic Racing, and Ark:…
Land of Screens is a short and sweet romcom experience that is ultimately too reductive to deliver its message meaningfully.By Jessica Howard on February 22, 2022 at 5:13PM PST Described by developer Serenity Forge as a “romcom adventure game,” Land of Screens is both charming and decidedly more grounded than similarly sentimental games. While it…
My Wedding Stories adds a lot of love and diverse options to The Sims 4, but a lack of immersion might keep players away from their happily ever after.By Jessica Howard on February 22, 2022 at 4:31PM PST It’s been a long engagement for EA but after no small amount of controversy and a short…
Dune co-writer Eric Roth initially had an epic opening scene planned for Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of sci-fi classic Dune, one that he admitted was a little “out there.” It never eventuated on the screen, Roth explains in a new interview with IndieWire, with Villeneuve explaining that the one scene would have used up the film’s…
We got our first glimpse of Master Chief’s new teammates Riz-028, Vannak-134, and Kai-125 in the show’s first official trailer–now, a new collection of character posters shows off the new Spartans in detail. Including Master Chief, the four Spartans make up Silver Team, the core of the Halo TV show’s seperate “Silver Timeline.”The new images…
After officially suggesting last year that it could part ways with the FIFA name, EA CEO Andrew Wilson has said more about the potential split in an internal meeting. In comments obtained by Video Games Chronicle, Wilson said that EA’s popular football games could actually be better off without its long-term FIFA partnership.EA has licenced…
In brief: McAfee Agent, a component of the company’s ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), is deployed to client machines to report data, status, and enforce policies. Earlier this week, the company released a security bulletin highlighting two CVEs affecting previous versions of the ePO Agent deployed to support ePO efforts. The company released an updated version of…
Why it matters: When Nvidia unveiled the desktop RTX 3050 at CES at the beginning of this month, some probably assumed crypto miners would snap up most of them just like they have other new GPUs. However, recent hash-rate analyses suggest the budget card isn’t for mining blockchain. According to VideoCardz’s Chinese sources, the RTX…
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